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  1. The Balto-Slavic languages form a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, traditionally comprising the Baltic and Slavic languages. Baltic and Slavic languages share several linguistic traits not found in any other Indo-European branch, which points to a period of common development and origin.

  2. Balto-Slavic languages, hypothetical language group comprising the languages of the Baltic and Slavic subgroups of the Indo-European language family. Those scholars who accept the Balto-Slavic hypothesis attribute the large number of close similarities in the vocabulary, grammar, and sound systems

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  4. Two Slavic languages, Belarusian and Serbian, are biscriptal, commonly written in either alphabet. East Slavic languages such as Russian have, however, during and after Peter the Great's Europeanization campaign, absorbed many words of Latin, French, German, and Italian origin.

  5. 15 - Balto-Slavic. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2022. By. Tijmen Pronk. Edited by. Thomas Olander. Chapter. Save PDF. Summary. Since the times of Bopp and Schleicher, Baltic and Slavic have been treated as a single branch of the Indo-European language family.

  6. hide. Beginning. References. Balto-Slavic languages. The Balto-Slavic language group is a hypothetical group made up of the Baltic and Slavic languages.

  7. Proto-Balto-Slavic. Innovations; Hypothetical origins; The loss of reduced vowels; The early development of the Slavic languages; The emergence of the individual Slavic languages; The modern Slavic languages